The former Minister of Finance, ex-prime minister of the Soviet Union, Doctor of Economics, Valentin Pavlov, died. According to the International Academy of Management, Pavlov died on March 30 after a serious and short illness, in the 66th year of his life.

The case of extradition from Great Britain to Russia Boris Berezovsky and Julia Dubova is instructed to lead Judge Timothy Warkman. This was reported on Monday in the magistrate court of London on Bow Street. Since December last year, Warkman has been engaged in the procedure of extradition to Russia by the emissary of Chechen militants Ahmed Zakayev in the same court.

Iraqis running from the war share food with American marines in the central Iraq. The supply of troops is very difficult to attack the Iraqi army, which exerts fierce resistance to the coalition forces in the south of the country, AFP reports. As Sergeant Kenneth Wilson said, the soldiers talking in Arabic were able to contact refugees, whose buses moved south of the country. This was the first peaceful contact with the local population.

The advanced units of the American troops crossed the so -called 'red line' of the defense of Baghdad, Fox News reports. The term 'Red Line' was introduced by the Pentagon. Behind this conditional line, the fortified positions of the Republican Guard, which protects the Iraqi capital, begins. Earlier there were reports that on the nearest approaches to Baghdad Saddam Hussein could give the army to use chemical weapons.

On Sunday, Fortune magazine published its annual rating of the largest world companies based on their income over the past year. In the first place for the second year in a row, the world's largest network of supermarkets Wal-Mart Stores. The magazine experts note that the growth rate will allow WAL-MART to retain first place on an ongoing basis. In the first five, there are conventional permutations for this group.

In St. Petersburg, as a result of a fire in a hostel owned by NGO "Banner of Labor", three people were killed, five were injured. The fire safety service of the Ministry of Emergencies in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported that the fire signal received about 01:20 on Monday night. According to firefighters, the fire covered the fifth floor, the attic, as well as the ceiling between the fourth and fifth floor. The total area of ​​fire was about 600 square meters. meters.

In Spain, on Monday, a bus with schoolchildren got into an accident. The bus moved out of the highway near the city of Almetla de Mar (autonomous region of Catalonia) and collapsed into a ditch. The bus had 40 schoolchildren and five teachers accompanying them. As a result of the incident, one person died and 19 were injured, three of them are in serious condition.

Arnett, illuminating the war in Iraq for the NBC news service, which is part of the MSNBC Corporation, and also prepares materials for the National Geographic magazine, said on Sunday in an interview with Baghdad that "the US military has failed due to resistance from Iraqis." In his opinion, "the opposition to President Bush is growing in the United States regarding warfare and opposition to it." 12 years ago, Arnett, who then worked on CNN television, became famous for direct reports from the

The 33-year-old employee of the Special Unit "Sokol" of the Office for the Combat Crime Management of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Lviv wounded a minibus from the pistol and the conductor of the minibus. This happened during a fight, the cause of which was a conflict about the possibility of free travel of order.

For the first time since the beginning of a military operation in Iraq, the support of the Allied actions led by the British population led by the United States has declined. According to the last survey by the order of The Daily Telegraph , the support of the operation was reduced from 59% to 54%.

On Monday, American troops first entered a direct battle with the Iraqi Republican Guard, AFP reports. The battle began at night east of Karbela, 100 km south of Baghdad, the commander of the 1st brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, Colonel Will Grimli. According to him, "this was the first serious clash" with the elite Iraqi troops. According to the American command, 200 Iraqis were killed, wounded, wounded, wounded, wounded or captured, Interfax reports.

Vice Prime Minister Iraq Tarik Aziz said on Sunday in an interview that the war was developing very successfully for Iraq. Aziz said that this war is based on bluff, deceit and miscalculations from the USA and Great Britain, and that Iraqi will continue to exert fierce resistance to the invaders, reports Reuters. “As we can see and as the realities show, the war is very successful,” Tarik Aziz said in an interview recorded for the American ABC television company and shown on Sunday BBC.

Large street robbery was committed the night before on the street of Decembrists. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the incident occurred at 21:30 on Sunday. An unknown criminal attacked a 40-year-old unemployed resident of Mytishch, hit her on the head with a heavy object, stole 97 thousand dollars that she had with him, and disappeared. The victim is hospitalized. The search for a criminal in hot traces did not give results.

The broadcast of Iraqi television was again interrupted. Reuters, citing Iraqi sources, reports that this happened due to Baghdad's nightly non -permanent power bombing capacities . Around 13:30 the broadcasting has resumed. Last night, during the bombing of Baghdad, all types of American strategic bombers were first involved: B-1, B-2 and B-52. Earlier, all bombers were never used to strike at the same purposes. A massive bombing led to fires in the city center.

In the southern part of Algeria, seven German tourists disappeared in the sugar desert. This was announced by the representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany in Berlin on Monday. We are talking about four men and three women who traveled around the Sahara desert in three cars. On March 20, this turbroup was supposed to go by ferry from Algeria to Genoa, but the deadline did not arrive.